I mean… Wine tasting is a scam too.
lol fuck off. yea I get it extremely rich people can be very stupid but don’t bring water into your stupid grift. It is not a luxury, it is a basic human right.
there was a penn and teller bullshit episode on this once. No they can’t tell the difference. They served everyone tapwater from the same hose, but in fancy bottles, and now everyone started to have preferences.
As someone who only drinks water in restaurants and at home for several reasons: there are wild differences between different waters.
oh hey it’s that ProZD skit from a decade ago but unironic.
How fucking pretentious. Adults playacting. Reminds me of Nero during the fall of Rome. In capitalism nothing counts unless it sells and people with too much money buy all sorts of weird shit, so this may produce another “revenue stream”.
That pic has serious Salt Bae vibes. But if douchebags can convince people to buy $12,000 bottles of fermented grape juice, which was once free in Europe, then water can’t be far behind.
Meet the grifters…
No. Stop trying to monetize everything.
Uh…a vending machine will charge $2.50 now for 1/3 of a litre of water in Canada, and people lost their shit at paying $1.50 a litre for gasoline.
Basically it’s the same thing most monetize, namely the idiocy of some people.
Just fucking piss off.
The final fate of all water, no matter how much the bottle cost.
My body is a MACHINE that turns WATER into PISS
Just like those charlatans peddling water with baking soda-err… I mean alkaline water.
This is just Nestle with extra steps.
Fucking stupid , this brings me back to “Pen and teller’s bullshit episode on “fancy water” lol.
Was that the one where they used the garden hose behind the restaurant? I so loved that show.
Yep, that was the one.
Also included the set designer working as a cook, using $1 mashed potatoes and a blow torch to make a fancy meal
mineral content can be measured by evaporating a sample and weighing what is left as milligrams per litre of total dissolved solids (TDS)
I’d recommend ion chromatography here if you want accurate results lol
MS is the way.
£19 a bottle for water so dirty that it leaves behind measurable solids when it evaporates.
Dude, the whole thing is a scam. We don’t want to get bogged down with expensive fancy equipment.
It worked for Scientology
Their e-meters are relatively basic. They just slap $200 of components in a box and charge $5000 for them
Wait, it’s NOT the Onion!
Given that we know what the mineral content of these different waters are, wouldn’t it be a trivial matter to replicate that by starting with a very pure water source, and simply adding the right minerals?
Laughably so.
So do
If it is so easy to do, then do it if you want the money. These people are already being swindled which means that money is already going to go to bs flavor water as is, so why not get in on it? I don’t personaly have any moral dilemma with it since nobody is actually being hurt. It’s just a luxury version of an everyday substance. The kind of thing that folks with more than they need are going to be spending that excess on anyway, right?
And the phrasing was in reference to the iasip episode in which Dennis runs for mayor i think it was? Charlie writes him an awful speech which ends on “so do” as in “so do your part and vote for me”, but because he’s illiterate, he does not actually express the full thought.
The point is it’s a bullshit thing.
I don’t disagree. I just dont think bullshit is going away anytime soon, and feel strongly that fooling the wealthy into forking over some of that fortune is a net positive. Like, who exactly is hurt by selling bullshit fancy water to snoots? They said it was easy, so I said do it, because why shouldn’t any of us take advantage of people that build their fortunes on taking advantage of others?
Lots of things are bullshit and some of us have too much while others have too little. Everybody’s gotta eat, though. And there are countless scams out there that actually cause people harm. As far as I can tell, this just isn’t one of them, so I dont see a problem with the working class getting the wealthy to pay ridiculous amounts for cheap and unnecessary bullshit.
Im wrong about a lot of things, though. Maybe I’m just missing something here?
I think you read context that wasn’t there. All I mentioned was level level of ease, and I got a reference that I didn’t understand and then a odd tangent as way of an explanation.
It’s not only trivial, people already do that for coffee.
Yes but us water experts are able to detect quantum fluctuations from the ground state of the particles in the water to optimize the ionization of the water and improve the interaction with your taste buds
We are being persecuted for our beliefs in homeopathy. They won’t even let me pay my taxes with water from a jar of $100 bills.
Maybe it’s like diamonds. Even if it’s exactly the same it has no value unless it’s extracted from conflicted zones.
Depends if you’re counting Russia, looks like. DR Congo is the only other one on the list that’s sus that way, although Zimbabwe is especially problematic even at peace.
Pfft. Once you actually start doing science the magic goes away. Do you just hate art? /s
